WEBVTT 00:00:00.900 --> 00:00:03.400 align:middle line:10% - How important do you think it is that in the last two days 00:00:03.400 --> 00:00:06.240 align:middle line:10% you truly came together as a league 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:09.130 align:middle line:10% versus just different teams with different ideas here? 00:00:09.130 --> 00:00:10.800 align:middle line:10% - 15 years in this league and I've 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:12.262 align:middle line:10% never seen anything like it. 00:00:12.262 --> 00:00:14.220 align:middle line:10% Obviously, I wasn't the oldest one in the room. 00:00:14.220 --> 00:00:16.059 align:middle line:10% I think Udonis Haslem was. 00:00:16.059 --> 00:00:18.270 align:middle line:10% But the voices that were heard-- 00:00:18.270 --> 00:00:19.720 align:middle line:10% I'll never forget it. 00:00:19.720 --> 00:00:20.920 align:middle line:10% I'll never forget it. 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:28.370 align:middle line:10% And for a lot of us, you know, we had an opportunity to-- 00:00:28.370 --> 00:00:30.120 align:middle line:10% you know, you get a chance to read and see 00:00:30.120 --> 00:00:32.250 align:middle line:10% pictures of the Cleveland Summit for those 00:00:32.250 --> 00:00:34.410 align:middle line:10% who came before us and the Muhammad Alis, 00:00:34.410 --> 00:00:36.690 align:middle line:10% and the Jim Browns, and the Kareem Abdul-Jabbars 00:00:36.690 --> 00:00:38.890 align:middle line:10% and how powerful they were. 00:00:38.890 --> 00:00:41.560 align:middle line:10% You know, we're not saying that we're that, 00:00:41.560 --> 00:00:43.870 align:middle line:10% but what we're doing right now in our league is huge. 00:00:43.870 --> 00:00:45.990 align:middle line:10% And I think for the young guys in our league to get a chance 00:00:45.990 --> 00:00:47.740 align:middle line:10% to see how guys are really coming together 00:00:47.740 --> 00:00:51.150 align:middle line:10% and speak and see real change, real action 00:00:51.150 --> 00:00:52.620 align:middle line:10% because guys are tired. 00:00:52.620 --> 00:00:53.970 align:middle line:10% I mean, tired. 00:00:53.970 --> 00:00:55.590 align:middle line:10% And I'm saying when I say "tired," 00:00:55.590 --> 00:00:57.090 align:middle line:10% we're not physically tired. 00:00:57.090 --> 00:00:59.673 align:middle line:10% We're just tired of seeing the same thing over and over again. 00:00:59.673 --> 00:01:00.573 align:middle line:10% - Yeah. 00:01:00.573 --> 00:01:01.560 align:middle line:10% - Right? 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:06.040 align:middle line:10% I was blessed and fortunate enough to talk to Jacob-- 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:07.830 align:middle line:10% to talk to Jacob Blake's father. 00:01:07.830 --> 00:01:11.550 align:middle line:10% And he's went to Salem State-- 00:01:11.550 --> 00:01:14.220 align:middle line:10% a graduate and was in my hometown 00:01:14.220 --> 00:01:15.480 align:middle line:10% of Winston-Salem for a while. 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:16.637 align:middle line:10% And it's emotional. 00:01:16.637 --> 00:01:18.720 align:middle line:10% It's emotional, especially when you're a black man 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:21.060 align:middle line:10% and you know that when George Hill spoke, 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:22.590 align:middle line:10% he talked about being a black man. 00:01:22.590 --> 00:01:23.740 align:middle line:10% He was hurt. 00:01:23.740 --> 00:01:24.090 align:middle line:10% He was hurt. 00:01:24.090 --> 00:01:24.990 align:middle line:10% We all hurt. 00:01:24.990 --> 00:01:28.830 align:middle line:10% We're all tired of just seeing the same thing over and over 00:01:28.830 --> 00:01:32.370 align:middle line:10% again and everybody just expect us to be OK just because we 00:01:32.370 --> 00:01:33.930 align:middle line:10% get paid great money. 00:01:33.930 --> 00:01:34.860 align:middle line:10% You know, we're human. 00:01:34.860 --> 00:01:37.890 align:middle line:10% We have real feelings, and I'm glad that we got a chance 00:01:37.890 --> 00:01:40.470 align:middle line:10% to get in a room together to talk with one another 00:01:40.470 --> 00:01:42.420 align:middle line:10% and not just cross paths and say, 00:01:42.420 --> 00:01:44.880 align:middle line:10% good luck in your game today.